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The thing is the Google Gravity experiment doesn’t offer anything useful and doesn’t also prove anything, especially because it’s only working on Chrome and it can only make Google’s frontpage fall.

You can try the experiment for yourself right here or check out the video to see how it works.

Let me know if you don’t share my opinion and really believe it’s something interesting about it, though I doubt it. Source

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President Obama announced this January 8 the award of $2.3 billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States. 183 projects in 43 states will create tens of thousands of high quality clean energy jobs and the domestic manufacturing of electric cars, solar, wind, and energy efficiency.

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“Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future,” said President Obama. “The Recovery Act awards I am announcing today will help close the clean energy gap that has grown between America and other nations while creating good jobs, reducing our carbon emissions and increasing our energy security.” These credits are also an important step towards meeting the President’s goal of doubling the amount of renewable energy the country uses in the next three years with wind turbines and solar panels built right here in the United States.

The President identified that this initiative is also important “To reduce our dangerous dependency on foreign oil….This initiative will close the clean energy gap with other nations.” He cited China and Germany as competing for wind, solar, and energy efficiency jobs.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said, “The awards announced today, together with the more than $5 billion in private sector capital spurred by our investment, will drive significant growth in the renewable energy and clean technology manufacturing sectors, good jobs, an energized private sector marketplace and a leadership role for the U.S. in these crucial high-growth markets.”

The investment tax credits, worth up to thirty percent of each planned project, will leverage private capital for a total investment of nearly $7.7 billion in high-tech manufacturing in the United States.
Cleantech Job Creation Projects

Electric Cars – $17 million for Think North America will establish a U.S. manufacturing operation/facility in Indiana. Think has delivered thousands of battery-electric vehicles in Europe. Think is 30 percent owned by American lithium battery maker EnerDel.

Smart Grid – $5 million for Itron whose OpenWay CENTRON meter is one of the first smart meters for the residential market providing built-in, two-way communications and a remote on/off switch which will give customers more choice and enable utilities to provide higher reliability at lower cost. The expansion of manufacturing capacity in their facility in South Carolina will allow an annual production of four million meters.

Building Efficiency and Energy Management – W.L. Gore is producing an advanced membrane for high efficiency fuel cells for buildings and vehicles. The company’s products can help enable lower-cost fuel cells for use in electric vehicles or to power homes and businesses. They are also manufacturing an advanced turbine filter to improve the performance of gas turbines to produce greater outputs at lower cost and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

LED Lighting - Cree received $39 million for purchasing new equipment to add capacity and capability to lower production costs of LED chips and fixtures. LED lighting technologies represent a new source of high efficiency lighting.

Fuel Efficiency – PPG Industries will produce a special tire tread component that reduces rolling resistance and improves fuel economy. PPG tax credits will also provide for manufacturing of one of the critical components of glass solar cells, the transparent conductive oxide (TCO) coatings of the glass,.

Solar Energy – $142 million for Hemlock Semiconductor will expand a manufacturing plant that produces polycrystalline-silicon used in the production of solar panels. $43 million for Nanosolar to produce tools for the manufacturing of low-cost, low-GHG emission solar cells, using nanotechnology-enabled roll-to-roll processes. $10 million for Miasole to manufacture Solar PV Cells and modules based on an innovative thin-film production technology. $16 million for First Solar will expand its manufacturing facility to produce fully completed thin-film solar modules.

Wind Energy – TPI Composites. is building a new manufacturing facility in Nebraska to produce next generation wind turbine blades. TPI says the facility will create over 200 new jobs and will have a capacity equivalent to supplying 265 turbines rated at 2.5 MW for a total electrical output of 663 MW. TPI will also be expanding their existing manufacturing facility in Iowa. TPI’s composite materials are also used for lighter, stronger, and more fuel efficient vehicles. $52 million for world-leader Vestas to expand U.S. turbine blade production.

Nuclear – Alstom received $63 million to establish a new turbine manufacturing facility designed to manufacture the world’s largest steam turbines, with unit output up to 1700 MW. The new facility will focus on turbines used in advanced nuclear power plants, retrofitting existing turbines in nuclear power plants with higher efficiency technologies, turbines in new hydro power plants, and retrofitting existing turbines in hydro power plants with higher efficiency technologies.
183 Cleantech Projects in 43 States

While projects selected for this tax credit generally must be placed in service by 2014, approximately 30 percent of them will be completed in 2010.

The Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit authorized Treasury to provide developers with an investment tax credit of 30 percent for facilities that manufacture particular types of energy equipment. Qualifying manufacturers will produce solar, wind, and geothermal energy equipment; fuel cells, microturbines, and batteries; electric cars; electric grids to support the transmission of renewable energy; energy conservation technologies; and equipment that captures and sequesters carbon dioxide or reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

“The world urgently needs to move toward clean energy technologies, and the United States has the opportunity to lead in this new industrial revolution,” said DOE Secretary Chu. Source

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Sparkfun Free Day was a promotion to give out $100,000 in free merchandise. It led to server issues at the Sparkfun Web site today, and frustrated comments began popping up on Twitter as a result:

rogermeier: #sparkfun #freeday epic fail! Couldn’t log on for 2 hours. And now the whole thing is over.

benshell: So much for the #sparkfun giveaway this morning. I was ready to go before it started, but I wasn’t able to checkout.

kjabs: damnit … i missed getting stuff from @sparkfun because the site wouldn’t load. #sparkfun #fail @exiva

The event ended just moments ago with the official Sparkfun Twitter account stating, “Free Day is officially over folks. At 10:44:47, we reached $100,587.80 (6 people hit the checkout button at the same time to end the day).”

The Sparkfun Web site had been promoting the event for days with this promo:

It seems like it was just last week when we announced SparkFun Free Day and now it is almost upon us! Free Day is coming in just a few short days – Thursday, January 7th, 2010, to be exact. Source

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At a CES 2010 Dell press conference attended by CNET’s Scott Stein, the 11.6 inch Alienware M11x was touted as a light, powerful laptop with six hours of battery life and powered by a Nvidia GT335M GPU. The battery life reportedly and logically drops with the power requirements of the game; Engadget reports that switching to “gaming mode” drops the batterly life from six hours to two hours of “intense gaming.” It’s said to run Modern Warfare 2 in high def at over 30fps.

That claim has drawn the attention of a lot of skeptical gamers. “Quadzilla” at Notebook.com’s forum wrote:

Those performance numbers were probably taken with everything on LOW@1024×768 … It says Modern Warfare was in HD but im not sure what HD(Highly Doubtful ?) they are talking about lol..

Still, at $1,000, the Alienware M11x just placed itself in competition with the education-oriented Apple Mac Book. The comparison is appropriate because a good portion of college students play online games and that means using a computer. Pew Research estimated that 70 percent of college students “reported playing video, computer or online games at least once in a while, and 65% of college students reported being regular or occasional game players.”

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So which computer is a college student who’s most likely to play Modern Warfare going to pick, an Apple Mac Book or an Alienware M11x?

Apple better wake up, Alienware M11x’s coming.

Stay tuned. Source

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Eager to see this latest marvel, we went to Google.com/phone yesterday to explore the options, which boiled down to three:

1.) Pay $529. Buy the “unlocked” Nexus One phone and insert the SIM card from your existing phone.

2.) Pay $179+. Buy the T-Mobile version of the Nexus One on a new two-year contract with all of the usual ifs, ands and buts. Of course, existing T-Mobile customers “may qualify for upgrade pricing,” the site informs us.

3.) Wait. Want to use the Nexus One with Verizon Wireless. Just wait, a Verizon version is “coming soon,” we’re told.

Now, here at ConsumerAffairs.com, we have cell phones strewn about the way newspaper offices used to have paper piled up everywhere. We have the new Google-powered Android from Sprint, numerous Blackberries from Verizon and AT&T and several plain vanilla AT&T phones from various manufacturers.

Some of us routinely carry two phones, not because we’re particularly geeky but because we’ve learned the hard way that Verizon works in West Los Angeles while AT&T often doesn’t. On the other hand, AT&T works better in much of the Washington, D.C., area. Sprint is good in cities, but generally spotty in the boondocks.

With all these phones, the heat is always on from the powers that be to hold down cell phone spending. We occasionally hear raised voices sputtering something like, “If I get one more $69.99 cell phone bill, I’m going to …”

This is a long way of saying that we were thrilled at the thought of getting the unlocked Nexus One and using it on one of our existing accounts. We placed the order, all $529 worth, Tuesday night and the jolly FedEx man dropped it off before lunch Wednesday. Someone even engraved our name on the back.

So far, so good.

Whistling a merry tune, we plopped a Verizon Blackberry down on the desk, pried the back off, yanked out the battery and went looking for the SIM card. Hmmm … doesn’t seem to be one.

A bit later, at the Verizon Wireless store, a technician looked at us quizically. “There’s no SIM card in our phones,” he said.

We returned to the office, cursing, as co-workers with AT&T phones grabbed their handsets and scurried away.

Looking more closely at the Google store we discovered the paragraph which states:

“The currently available Nexus One device is unlocked and will recognize SIM cards from any mobile service provider using the GSM standard, but is incompatible with the frequency band used by the AT&T and Rogers networks for 3G data … Additionally, the Nexus One is incompatible with CDMA networks such as Verizon and Sprint.

Let’s see. An “unlocked” phone that won’t work with Verizon, AT&T or Sprint — the #1, 2 and 3 wireless carriers. That leaves us with — you’re right! — T-Mobile.

We wobbled over to the T-Mobile page, where it appears that a plan with unlimited usage and no annual contract will cost us about, oh, $79.99.

Our current plan of action is to find a way to bury that $79.99 in some section of the budget that won’t be unearthed for another year or two, giving us time to age sufficiently so that we can retire without being dismembered by the front office pennypinchers.

This, of course, requires a trip to the T-Mobile store and, having spent most of the afternoon fooling with this, traffic has worked its way up to gridlock, meaning it will be at least tomorrow before we’re able to give you a realistic review of this possibly nifty little gadget. Source

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